The boys are older than Emmett and have the interest in sexual scenes. Mostly they are not keen on seeing sexual situations on the screen with their parents in the room. Of course, DH throwing his arms around me and yelling "smoochies" might add to that. Most movies that have explicit sex aren't movies that would interest kids.

If I find something upsetting in a movie they don't get to see it. I have issues with language and don't let them watch movies that can't manage to get through a paragraph without a fuck. I know they hear it in school, at the ball court, and with their friends. They don't hear it at home and they know better than to use it around me.

They get annoyed with me when they can't see stuff. But if they never thought I was unreasonable I probably wouldn't be doing my job right.

I just told a nobel lauriat that "Everything's 5x5

Maybe (s)he'll think Allyson is a pilot or radio operator.

Mostly they are not keen on seeing sexual situations on the screen with their parents in the room.

I'm still not keen on that.

Sex and language on tv/movies was ok in our house, but violence, even cartoon violence, nsm. It used to bewilder me when my friends' parents would ff through the sex scene, but some guy having his brains bashed in was fine. Violence on screen still tends to flip me out. I've got a very low tolerance level for graphic stuff. You made your point, I don't need the details, thanks! Anything that relies on graphic stuff is just not going to be my cup of tea, ever.

Sex and language on tv/movies was ok in our house, but violence, even cartoon violence, nsm. It used to bewilder me when my friends' parents would ff through the sex scene, but some guy having his brains bashed in was fine. Violence on screen still tends to flip me out. I've got a very low tolerance level for graphic stuff. You made your point, I don't need the details, thanks! Anything that relies on graphic stuff is just not going to be my cup of tea, ever.

I remember my mom explicitly asking me not to watch was Real People. I don't remember exactly what she said, but I know she didn't really forbid me from watching it; she just said she and my dad would prefer I didn't. I think she felt it was mean-spirited (which it was).

She also strongly disapproved of Hogan's Heroes, but I know we did watch it at least sometimes. Possibly when she wasn't home.

I was into my teens before HBO hit big, and older than that when videos really hit. So my parents didn't have too much trouble with anything I saw on TV. When I was 11 or 12, I started staying up on Friday nights to watch reruns of Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr.

They also didn't really censor my reading much, which meant I read a lot that they would have probably disapproved of had they known. When I was about 15 or 16, my mother had a minor freak-out when she found me reading a Jacqueline Susann novel. I had the good sense not to tell her that I didn't learn anything from it that I hadn't already learned from reading The Godfather.

They also didn't really censor my reading much

Yeah, no reading censoring took place. Well, except of the put that book down right this minute and take out the trash! sort. I think I read Madame Bovary at 12. And Anna Karenina, and Vanity Fair. (they were in a collection my dad bought, so they are all sort of tied together in my head.)

Yeah, in my house, the TV was on lockdown, but I could read anything I wanted.

Funny story about what scares kids: Went to see Star Wars when it came out. I remember the spaceship coming across the screen, everyone saying 'ooooh", and then the airlock blew and Darth Vader came through. I screamed and got under my seat.

My mother and grandmother once went to see a play and ended up sitting separately. My mother enjoyed it but was glad she hadn't been sitting next to her mother. My grandmother enjoyed it but said she was glad her mother wasn't there. I think you pretty much never get over that.

When I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to watch The Flintstones - not because of the dinosaurs so much as because it gave the impression that the economic system had always been capitalism.

I'm pretty sure my parents were the only people in the neighbourhood to teach the kids they babysat about the concept of "property is theft".

Regarding scariness: my mother had to take my sister (RahRah) out of The Empire Strikes Back because she was terrified of ... Yoda.